Eppolito and Bravatti get off light

After five years of legal wrangling, “Mafia Cops” case minor players Anthony Eppolito and Guido Bravatti walked out of U.S. District Court Tuesday free men.
In September 2009, Eppolito and Bravatti were convicted by a jury of federal drug charges – distribution and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine – as part of a larger case that focused [...]

‘Goodfellas’ mobster is arrested in metro-east

The former mobster who inspired “Goodfellas” was arrested Sunday in Fairview Heights because he had “one too many” drinks in a hotel lobby, he said.
Henry P. Hill, 66, of Topanga, Calif., was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in the Drury Inn Hotel, 12 Ludwig Drive in Fairview Heights.
“I got a [...]

Reputed crime family underboss summoned to court in Newark

Martin Taccetta, a reputed former underboss of the Lucchese crime family’s New Jersey faction, has been summoned to a Newark courtroom next week to possibly resolve the charges pending against him in a mob case that has resulted in the convictions of 19 others.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler signed an order last week directing [...]

Mafia , Unions, and NYC Newspapers

Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers  as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime, a law enforcement official said.
Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney’s office searched for paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail [...]

Nearly two dozen ‘mobsters’ busted in bookie, loansharking ring

A mob-tied Sanitation Department chief was busted Wednesday on charges of taking kickbacks to steer city contracts to a New Jersey concrete company, authorities said.

Deputy Chief Frederick Grimaldi’s arrest on bribery charges is the second indictment in a month involving mob infiltration of a city agency.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Grimaldi was busted with 21 [...]

No sympathy for sick mobster Domenico Cutaia suffering from MS

A once-powerful Luchese crime capo now suffering from an advanced stage of multiple sclerosis was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for bank fraud.
Domenico (Danny) Cutaia, 72, hobbled into Brooklyn Federal Court with a walker hoping to get off with a sentence of home confinement.
Federal Judge Brian Cogan noted that [...]

Genovese Family still major Mafia Power

Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli didn’t know he was being watched when he left El Sabor Tropical restaurant in April 2008.
As he placed containers of takeout food in the back of his GMC Yukon, two hooded men pulled up beside him and demanded the precious stones they knew he always carried on [...]

Lucchese mafia suspect Wayne Schumer, president of Ucon Corp on the run ?

The boss of a big New York construction firm disappeared before he could be arrested on charges of bribing mobbed-up building inspectors, the Daily News has learned.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is hunting for Wayne Schumer, president of Ucon Corp., who is believed to have fled – possibly to Costa Rica, sources said.
Schumer is one [...]

More Lucchese Family Bust News

Forty-nine people, including top gangsters and three mobsters working as city building inspectors, were indicted Thursday in two separate bribery and racketeering schemes.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged 29 people, including three ranking members of the Lucchese crime family and the mob-tied building inspectors, with soliciting bribes to overlook violations or speed up permits.
Prosecutors said [...]

Lucchese crime family members busted in mob raid

A trio of Lucchese crime family associates infiltrated the city Department of Buildings, climbing to mid-level inspection jobs and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars a pop in bribes for years — even as they plied elsewhere their more underworld trades of guns, drugs and gambling, officials said today.
“They had developed a [...]

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